*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.

More than 16.6 billion explicit core searches were conducted in October. Google Sites ranked first with 11.0 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites in second with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites in third with 1.9 billion. Ask Network accounted for 598 million explicit core searches followed by AOL LLC Network with 346 million.